Word: southern
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...gives them a legitimacy. There are many black scholars who have yet to come to terms with the legitimacy of Afro-American Studies as an intellectual discipline," he notes. Benjamin also says that a rapid turnover rate among junior faculty "has a tendency to turn senior people off." But Southern protests against charges of turnover, noting that all junior faculty members hired under her tenure have served or are serving their full terms...
...Southern offers other explanations for the poor tenure performance. She says scholars refused tenure for a number of reasons--the lack of a graduate program, family ties or spouses with conflicting jobs, and Harvard's inability to top some of their salaries...
Chidi Ikonne, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, will serve as acting chairman of Afro-Am. Ikonne replaces Eileen Southern, professor of Afro-American Studies and Music, who resigned in June partly because she said she did not understand how she could work with the executive committee. Ikonne will work under the supervision of the committee, Rosovsky said...
...committee members are C. Clyde Ferguson, professor of Law (chairman); David H. Donald, Warren Professor of American History; Richard Freeman, professor of Economics; Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology; and Southern...
Ferguson said the committee plans to seek input from both junior faculty and students. Afro-Am's junior faculty last spring voiced their dissatisfaction with the department and with Southern at two meetings with Rosovsky, Brutus said...